Hello from Finland!

I decided to tell something about my budget-built project, which is 3-door Ford Sierra Mk1, from year 1984. I´ve bought this car in August 2007, so I have owned it almost 6 years (oh man that time goes fast...).

Car was in original shape, with 2.0 litre Pinto engine, yes with a Weber DGAV- carburettor, and drum brakes at rear. Luckily there was a five-speed-gearbox already, in good conditition, and its still there and working fine!

Few pics, before rebuilt:



Along the years, I have done many changes, to chassis, brakes, drivetrain and engine. In 2009 I installed 4wd-Cosworth rearbeam (yes a locked-diff), dicsbrakes to every corner, new -40mm lowering springs, and of course new shock absorbers. Some welding was also done for MoT.

In 2010 new master brake cylinder from 4wd cossie, was installed, so as cossie- "wing" and cossie front grill. I did also weld a new exhaust 2½" pipe with two Simons mufflers, it´s little noisy, but does pass MoT when I put "choker" inside rear muffler Naturally on the street I take it away

In 2011 only succesful mod was the installation of new yellow bushes to front tracking arms and anti-rollbar.

2012 was really a year of change, because in that year I rebuilted the engine. Crankshaft was grinded to first undersize (dunno is it a right term?), cylinders were honed. I used new bearings, piston rings ja high pressure oil pump in re-assembly.

Pics about engine rebuilt:








Cylinder head was made professional, hard pad followers and and Burton Bf134 "mild" camshaft were installed. The head itself is from 1.6 litre Taunus, so it gives very high compression ratio

The fuel system is totally re-done, I´ve changed injection model fuel tank, fuel lines, and inlet manifold. While driving I´m monitoring engine managment systems work with Innovate MTX-L wideband set. In other words I see AFR-value all the time.



As you can see it´s running well!

In this point I have to remind, that except the cylinder head I´ve done all the jobs by myself.

Now Sierra looks like in these picrutes. Yeah, it needs some bodywork, and there are some upgrades what I will do during this sping.





For example there is some welding to do, allthough that shouldn´t be a problem to me, cause I´ve passed IIW (International Institute of Welding) tests and I do have education for welding...

AND SORRY ABOUT MY VERY BAD ENGLISHHHH.